...what are you watching...

Shingeki no Kyojin 15-19! Major Hanji tells Eren about her experiments on captured Titans; crazy scientist is crazy. The new recruits then have to choose what division of the army to join. Most of the side characters that we've seen naturally join the recon/survey group...where Eren is of course. While 15-16 nicely builds the tension up, Episode 17 starts a new offensive. Armin runs across a intelligent female titan. 17-19 again brought some awesome visuals and tension while the group plans to capture the female titan.

Blood Lad 3! Stuck out another episode to see if wolf-boy is interesting. It's nice that he and Staz have mutual love-hate friendship going on, but it wasn't that engaging. Now, this is dropped.



Gin no Saji 2-4! Educational and cute, but the pacing lags and I keep falling asleep. Episode 4 was about pizza....mm...but dropped.

Hunter x Hunter 2013 88! End of their training. Gon vs Knuckle starts. Shoot lurks in the background. Another strong chimera ant is born.

Shingeki no Kyojin 14! The new opening theme song isn't as epic as the first, but I enjoyed the action-packed new visuals. In this episode, Eren is put on trial with his life at stake. The recon group is able to gain responsibility of him.

Hakkenden S2 2! End of the doll arc with more mysteries thrown into the plot.

Monogatari S2 2! Hanekawa via 'black' cat visits the tiger, and she meets Senjougahara. The girls get to know one another.

Blood Lad 2! Fuyumi angsts a little over being a demon while Staz sprays his saliva all over the town so nobody thinks twice about him or her. A girl with transport magic appears. The show has its silly fun moments, but I think I'm going to drop this. I think I've seen most of the jokes before.

Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist 2! William sorta befriends another demon who enrolls at the school. Like Hakkenden, it's a show about good-looking boys doing cutesy things and action-like things; ie. entertaining the female viewers.

Uchouten Kazoku 2! Day in the life of the tanuki brothers...and a tender moment with their mom/prince. Eccentric family, but fairly dull show thus far. Dropped.

Hunter x Hunter 2013 87! Thought Gon punched Knuckles in the groin or something. That was a confusing scene. Nevertheless, Kite is being turned into a Frankenstein-like doll. Netero and the other two are slowly killing off the chimera ant leaders. And Gon and Killua continue to train now with Knuckles' help.

Shingeki no Kyojin 13.5! skipped the recap episode.



Monogatari S2 1! It's a new school year and Hanakawa meets backpack-less Hachikuji on her way to school. She also sees a white tiger and her house burns down. Senjougahara finds her sleeping in the abandoned cram school building and forces her to stay with her. Araragi is not in this episode. It's female bonding/fanservice time.

And the new shows:


Uchoten Kazoku 1! Humans, tengu and tanuki.

+ Attractive production (Zetsubou Sensei-ish...with a wider color palette)
- Bland episode

Quick impression~ A young male tanuki dressing like schoolgirl runs errands for his grandfather. It appears that this should be a comedy, but it's lacking effective humor. The episode doesn't do much to get you interested in whatever story it's trying to tell.



Makai Ouji: Devils and Realist 1! I like how fanboys post 'yaoi' warnings when describing this anime show. This is based on a Zero-sum manga, so there's bound to be some light bromance.

+ Eye-candy
+ Goat-butler!

Quick impression~ A straight-A bocchan finds that his uncle has lost their family's fortune. William Twining and his one loyal butler search his home to find something to sell so that William can pay his school's tuition. I like that he attends a Catholic school but doesn't believe in god and such. They find a demon in the basement, but William believes him to be a con artist. The demon sees William as the descendent of Solomon who will choose the leader of the demon world while Lucifer is hibernating. This was actually fairly comedic. Unfortunately, the manga is not complete so the anime will unlikely cover much of the meat of the manga.



Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi 1! The Sunday without God

+ Interesting title and premise
- Really? a loli-gravedigger? (...well, 'gravekeeper' with a decorated shovel)
+ the main character's father's name is Humpnie Humbert...WTF...LOL.

Quick impression~ Heaven and Hell were too crowded so God forsake the world. Humans couldn't die or reproduce. Apparently, a gravekeeper could grant a peaceful slumber to the zombies that form after a human is 'killed'. Ai is the town's gravekeeper. One day she meets a traveler with her father's name and finds that all of the residents have been 'killed'. If Ai wasn't so annoyingly loli, this may be an interesting show.



Blood Lad 1! Ao no Exorcist vibes....

+ Bright, colorful production
+ Amusing

Quick impression~ A young, well-endowed female human wanders into the demon world. Staz, a vampire, is a big otaku and the leader of the gang who finds the girl. The girl is inadvertantly killed; she is now a ghost. Staz vows to turn her back into a human. Judging from the opening song, this is your typical shounen fighting show, and like typical shounen shows, it's fun. I do hope the female character gets some sort of power. (Vampire, ghost, and werewolf characters...sounds like the 'Being Human' trio..anime style)